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During the Summer of 1942 Britain and America jointly agreed to supply desperately needed arms to Soviet Russia. The Germans were as determined to halt this potentially war-winning operation as the Allies were that it should succeed. The battleground could not have been more inhospitable than the appalling conditions of the Arctic sea. The British and American merchantmen and their gallant naval escorts suffered grievous losses. The cold was so intense that there were pitifully few survivors from the many vessels sunk in the running battles that raged. The book deals in detail with the fate of the convoys PQ13 and PQ 17, bound from Iceland to North Russia, and the Westbound convoy QP13. Attacked by aircraft and U-boats, PQ13 and PQ17 lost between them a total of thirty ships while QP13, untouched by the enemy, ran into a British minefield off Iceland with the loss of seven ships.

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April –
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One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history’s most despised dictator is
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This comprehensive dictionary of one of the world's greatest conflicts contains over 1,200 entries, combining
facts, narrative and analysis, and covers all aspects of history's first global conflict such as :-*Actions from Achi Baba to the Zeebrugge raid, from the ...

It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress
Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the signs of invasion, ready for the final battle.What happens next is well-known to any ...

On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive:To all Commanders
- ‘All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions ...

Facing Armageddon is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores,
on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants’ experience. The book is a classic in the field. Sixty-four scholars from all over the ...

In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed
account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-color artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on ...

Early on the morning of 7 December 1941, 360 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft made a surprise
attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour, and laid waste to the American Far East Fleet. They sank four battleships, crippled three cruisers ...